About This Class

This class is step-by-step guide to creating cost-effective narrative films. Taught by award-winning filmmaker and film educator Julian Klepper, it covers everything from writing on a budget to casting, hiring a crew, shooting the film, and editing.

Having gone to film school, teaching film for over 10 years, and producing many high-quality low budget films for under $500 - Julian Klepper has mastered a unique approach to low budget film making. Simply put, the only way to make a great low budget film is to understand all of the various components of filmmaking (cameras, lighting, actors, writing, etc), prioritizing, and learning simple tricks/tools for getting the most out of everything and everyone. Julian will cover it all in this class!

I'm Julian: a filmmaker, film teacher, and the human behind Les Tigres Productions. I direct, write, edit and produce super low budget narrative movies, which I call Smoovies. Smoovies are super short films that are both in part comedic and, part dramatic, and created to purposefully examine larger topics. As of 2019 various Smoovies have screened at the New York City Independent Film Festival, Austin Micro Short Film Festival, and The Houston Comedy Film...